I haven't read the whole thread and I'm tired so if I'm just repeating others, ignore me and tell me to go to bed.
Birds won't get zapped unless they are touching something else at the same time they come in contact with a live wire. Something has to ground it for the current to come full circle and zap.
You've got to keep stuff (branches, weeds, grass) off of the fence. Some chargers are rated to "charge through wet weeds and grass", but it's only a matter of time before having too much junk on it burns up your box.
Get a lightening protector thingy.
I don't remember the numbers, but our fencer is rated for something like a zillion miles and I've got 3 copper ground rods sunk 8 feet (yeah, and I drove them in the ground myself. The bionic woman didn't have nuthin' on me....'till I couldn't get out of bed the next day
). Translation: Will light you up. Ask my husband, he likes to grab onto it every now and again, just to "test" it. I can't repeat what comes out of his mouth when he does this. Only a man would do this more than once. Anyway, my point to this is I've seen my chickens squeeze through. They usually only do it once (or twice, to come back through if they want to badly enough) but I've never seen them harmed. And I don't worry about neighbor kids touching it. If they make it that far, they deserve it. (ETA: I did just read your first post, and that your neighbor has a small child. OK, I'm not that mean. I would watch out for a small child)
Ok, I'm going to bed now, I've become the crotchety mean lady up on the hill!
Oh, and I don't know what you are using this fence for, but I've got a wily Nigerian doe who listens for the clicks made by the pulses of electricity and then she squeezes through the fence between pulses, so she can escape without the tingle. I didn't think anything could outwit my juiced-up fence 'till that.
Birds won't get zapped unless they are touching something else at the same time they come in contact with a live wire. Something has to ground it for the current to come full circle and zap.
You've got to keep stuff (branches, weeds, grass) off of the fence. Some chargers are rated to "charge through wet weeds and grass", but it's only a matter of time before having too much junk on it burns up your box.
Get a lightening protector thingy.
I don't remember the numbers, but our fencer is rated for something like a zillion miles and I've got 3 copper ground rods sunk 8 feet (yeah, and I drove them in the ground myself. The bionic woman didn't have nuthin' on me....'till I couldn't get out of bed the next day
Ok, I'm going to bed now, I've become the crotchety mean lady up on the hill!
Oh, and I don't know what you are using this fence for, but I've got a wily Nigerian doe who listens for the clicks made by the pulses of electricity and then she squeezes through the fence between pulses, so she can escape without the tingle. I didn't think anything could outwit my juiced-up fence 'till that.
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